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Dirga Vs. Durga

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Dirga Vs. Durga A Common Yoga Mispronunciation Often times when I attend yoga classes, or teach yoga teacher training, I hear a very common mispronunciation of two very different words; Dirga & Durga. Dirga is a word that you may hear many, many times in a hatha yoga class when referring to what we call … Read more

Yoga Inspired

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Yoga Teacher Training Leads to: “YOGA INSPIRED”   Ever since I can remember I have suffered from anxiety. As a little girl I was a constant worrier- thinking I was always sick, afraid of the doctors, afraid to sleep at my grandparents house because I was worried my grandfather would have a heart attack. I … Read more

Thai Massage and Yoga: Match made in Heaven

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Thai Massage and Yoga: Match made in Heaven By: Jessica Proulx Anyone who has started a yoga practice will rave about its benefits: the increased range of motion, the increased strength, the mindfulness associated with the moving meditation and breath, and so on and on and on and on. And, likewise, we hear the same … Read more

7 Reasons to do Yin Yoga

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By: Jessica Proulx Yin Yoga is one of those “things” in the yoga practice that my students are always afraid to try. As soon as you explain it as a “practice of long holding of gentle expressions of postures” they give you the look, and you know you have just turned them off. But how … Read more